I just installed seasons, and whenever I try to change the No Snow on Ground option to yes, it reverts back to no. No other options do this that I know of. I found someone else with the exact same problem, but a solution was never found. For reference:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=308504

These are the sims 2 games I have: Sims 2 Double Deluxe, Sims 2 University Life, and Sims 2 Seasons

Snow is still functional even if I can't see it, but snow is my favorite part of winter so I'm a little disappointed. Also this is my first post, if I'm doing something wrong please tell me!

Darby

18th Feb 2012, 1:15 AM

When the game simply will not allow certain graphics-intensive options, it's usually a specs issue. In your case, I think your video card is okay (Google can usually give you a rough idea on these things), but 3GB of RAM is a bit low on a Windows 7 machine. That may be what's holding things back.

xochi

18th Feb 2012, 1:20 AM

When the game simply will not allow certain graphics-intensive options, it's usually a specs issue. In your case, I think your video card is okay (Google can usually give you a rough idea on these things), but 3GB of RAM is a bit low on a Windows 7 machine. That may be what's holding things back.
Thank you for replying! I'll try getting more RAM, it's always good to have anyways.
Is there anything else I can try? I won't be able to get the RAM for a little while and if there's anything I could try right now I'd like to.

Darby

18th Feb 2012, 2:21 AM

Well, in general, game performance can be improved by making sure unnecessary background tasks (especially browsers) are not running when you play. Some have anti-virus protection that interferes with the game, so they disable it while they're playing. I don't know that I recommend doing this, but it's a thought.

I don't know if this will help, but you could also play with some of the other graphics options. Take some of them down a notch, and perhaps that will free up enough resources to make snow possible. Turning off shadows, reflections, and viewable neighbors would be particularly helpful.

xochi

18th Feb 2012, 3:04 AM

Well, in general, game performance can be improved by making sure unnecessary background tasks (especially browsers) are not running when you play. Some have anti-virus protection that interferes with the game, so they disable it while they're playing. I don't know that I recommend doing this, but it's a thought.

I don't know if this will help, but you could also play with some of the other graphics options. Take some of them down a notch, and perhaps that will free up enough resources to make snow possible. Turning off shadows, reflections, and viewable neighbors would be particularly helpful.
Thanks once again for replying!
Shadows were already greyed out, and turning down options all the way didn't have an effect on the snow option. The shadows are confusing, because I'm almost positive they didn't used to be greyed out. I'll see if getting more RAM changes anything!

Darby

18th Feb 2012, 4:55 AM

I do hope that will do the trick. Good luck!

Cyjon

23rd Feb 2012, 5:18 AM

Have you messed with "Graphics Rules.sgr"? Like say to adjust the display for a widescreen monitor? There was another thread a few months ago that I can't find now where someone had a similar problem. It turned out he was using a Graphics Rules file he downloaded without regard to the fact it was a pre-Seasons file so didn't have all the new graphics settings like snow.

xochi

8th Mar 2012, 12:05 AM

Have you messed with "Graphics Rules.sgr"? Like say to adjust the display for a widescreen monitor? There was another thread a few months ago that I can't find now where someone had a similar problem. It turned out he was using a Graphics Rules file he downloaded without regard to the fact it was a pre-Seasons file so didn't have all the new graphics settings like snow.

Apologies for late reply. No I haven't messed with that at all, that I know of

xochi

16th Mar 2012, 8:18 AM

Quick update, I did install more RAM. Now have 11g. Didn't change the snow problem, so it's not that.
However it did occur to me that I don't think I've ever patched the game, which might be causing some problems. I'll try patching and see if that fixes anything